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Fantastic starting point for introducing national symbols and Australian culture whilst familiarising with what students are already familiar with. By allowing students to identify the various symbols and icons in the centre image, educators can familiarise themselves with the prior knowledge of each student and the class as a whole to work towards planning the most appropriately suited lessons for that class in that topic. The site lists the one-hundred icons considered to be Australian with a brief description, using the image consisting those one-hundred icons, as a class determine what students are most familiar with (what they recognise) and then let students convey what they wish to learn more about (engaging more students with their learning). The site also works well for teachers to extend their lessons to explore varying aspects of Australian culture, for example: Exploring Banjo Paterson's poems and ballads and what kind of image is painted about the country during that time.

Brief task for students to do, is to pick one symbol each, and linking to literacy, write a few short paragraphs describing how that symbol represents Australia (only a short descriptive and informative text, not a recount or report). In addition to this task, take each of the 100 icons and place them on a large plain map of Australia with some brief information alongside each icon. This acts as a graphic organiser (Petty, 2009, pp. 115-130) which may help students become familiar with Australia and its history, as well as the geographic location of events and its influences. e.g. Why are the main cities along the coasts? When the people mainly reached Australia by boat, which is along the coast.

This particular website is also very sufficient to demonstrate how various symbols, from the past (e.g. Ned Kelly) and also more recently developed (e.g. Surfing) all contribute to the changing Australian culture but are all still symbols of Australia. They reflect influences on the changes in Australia towards developing the "Australian Identity".

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